Time to move away from nuclear energy

Cambridge Times

Now that there’s a new Liberal leader, politics is heating up across the province as all parties prepare (but deny it) for an election. The Progressive Conservatives have already started attack ads, and rebuttals are sure to follow.

I’m tired of politics interfering with truth. The Ontario Energy Board released two reports in the same week as the PCs released their energy paper, showing that the PC plan was entirely false. As a former PC, I find this very frustrating. Hudak says nuclear is cheap and wind is expensive. The OEB reported nuclear cost overruns caused 45 per cent of our energy price increases, and wind and solar and conservation at only five per cent combined. Wind is not the problem.

The truth is that it costs money to build any new power plant and we need to rebuild half our grid. We still owe approximately $15 billion on our old nuclear plants even though we now need to replace them and new nukes are more than twice as expensive as every other option. How the PCs can claim that they’re not, when the OEB says they are, is very frustrating to me. The NDP and Greens were calling for a moratorium on nuclear, promoting conservation and buying wind energy from farmers. When the rest of the world is clearly moving away from nuclear to wind and solar, this just makes sense.

I share Conservative values, but the neo-con PC party has lost its conscience. More facts are online at www.mi-group.ca/faq.